Compliment Quotes

I'm not cocky, I'm confident. So when you tell me I'm the best it's a compliment

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

You offer a sincere compliment on a great mustache and suddenly she's not your friend.

I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong

Crazy is a compliment.

I never liked the rain until I walked through it with you.

Loving you, until the day that 8 x 8 x 8 x 8 is 4.

When someone accuses you of being 'childish', I think you should take it as a compliment.

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise.

Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.

I dont like compliments. I prefer criticism..then I can prove those people wrong.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.

Treat every piece of advice as a gift or a compliment and simply say, “Thank you.

There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.

I don't give out compliments easily.

A compliment is verbal sunshine.

Don't thank the lord, I gave you that compliment... Thank me.

Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.

No compliment is ever sufficient and every insult, of course, is true.

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance.

The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.'

I love your bracelet!’ I said to the brunette next to me, because, while most girls are onto the whole stranger-with-candy thing, the strangers-with-compliments strategy is still remarkably effective.

I see something in her eyes, sends me to a better place.

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

I can say that Thiago Silva has no rival in his position. He is by far the best defender in the world. It’s a compliment for me to be compared to him.

She's a nice girl, but her bad girl's better.

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.

It's very inexpensive to give a compliment.

It takes a million compliments to build you up and one insult to send it all crashing down.

One of the things I'd learned ... was how to take a compliment. Just say, "Thank you." It's the only response a confident person can make.

And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

I'm not very good at taking compliments. It's better than getting slapped in the face, I suppose.

You got amphetamine eyes.

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?

I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

It's a compliment to me to hear you screaming.

Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.

Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable.

There's a joke in everything, the trick is finding it. The best compliment a joke can get is what Huxley said about Darwin's theory of evolution - 'Why didn't I think of that?'

A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.